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From your profile it indicates your car is a 2001 xi. Assuming an 01 with ~12k miles per year, you might have 80 to 90k miles on it? At that mileage it is typlically wise to replace the struts / shocks at all four corners as they are likely worn. Doing the fronts is not very difficult.

If you prefer a sporting feel, go for H&R Sport springs and Bilstein sport dampers.

Thanks for the advice. My car has 57k miles on it. That is why I was not thinking of changing all of them at this time and I like the ride of the stock setup. Your setup would properly cost less than the BMW coils and Bilstein shocks. I will keep that in mind as an option.

Thanks.

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Originally Posted by Mark M

From your profile it indicates your car is a 2001 xi. Assuming an 01 with ~12k miles per year, you might have 80 to 90k miles on it? At that mileage it is typlically wise to replace the struts / shocks at all four corners as they are likely worn. Doing the fronts is not very difficult.

If you prefer a sporting feel, go for H&R Sport springs and Bilstein sport dampers.

Wish everybody is enjoying their X'mas with their family today comfortably at home.

I have searched high and low for the suppliers for the BMW OEM or genuine parts and came across this site www.onlinebmwparts.com. It seems to have good price on parts but I could not find out how good this company is. No search result has turned up on this forum either. Just curious if anybody had dealt with them before and could comment on them.